Ikeja City Mall opens

Over a thousand people witnessed the grand opening of the $100 million Ikeja City Mall today, one of the biggest malls in the West African sub-region.
The mall, located in Alausa, Lagos, southwest Nigeria is built by Actis, a leading private equity investor alongside its project partners, Paragon Holdings and RMB Investment and Advisory.Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State declared the Mall opened
The space accommodates nearly 100 shops, including Shoprite’s latest generation store of over 4,400 square metres, KFC, Mr. Price, Twice as Nice and Aldo. The design of the mall incorporates informal meeting places, a food hall and five screen Silverbird Cinema. Bounded by access roads on three sides, the five-hectare site is ideally positioned for convenient parking and shopping.
Declaring the mall open, Fashola said the building of the mall in Ikeja represented a milestone and restored Ikeja to its rightful place as the retail hub of Lagos.